CRISPR creators, startup founders win Nobel Prize

The co-founders of several local startups and mothers of the scientific tool CRISPR received the scientific industry’s highest honor Wednesday: The Nobel Prize.  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna for their work developing the genome editing technology CRISPR. The approach has been likened to a microscopic pair of scissors able to make specific cuts in the DNA strand, enabling scientists to alter individual genes. It is currently being tested…